[ { "id": 238758, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "page_number": 167, "title": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "content_text": "May the ... have been claimed and paid to Representatives of the deceased Men-Hoher and Hill, but that I will at once submit this matter to \n\nthe Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, \n\nand have little doubt that in course of Mail, the order for the restitution called for will be directed.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed) Charles Williames,\n\nD.b.9.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nMonial Secretary.\n\nPage 89\n\nFinancial.\n\n42%\n\nCopy to Treasury for\n\nAnswer\n\n& SRS S\n\nconton. 14 August 56.\n\nLir.\n\n186\n\nGovernment Offices, Secretariat, Writing, 3rd June 1856\n\nRECEIVED\n\nAUG. 6\n\n1856\n\nDespatch,\n\nThe continuation of my Despatch of 7th ultimo, I have the honor to report that the additional assistance required by the Receiving Commission has been furnished in the appointment of Mr. Alfred Weatherhead to a Clerkship in the Treasury at the Colony - already stated, £95 a year.\n\nI trust this indispensable...\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nHenry Labouchere, M.P.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 238761, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "page_number": 170, "title": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "content_text": "The Officer attending\n\na Treasurer and too\n\nto sanction, this appoint Checks eight to suffice,\n\nmeals, which he will apprise The Gentleman His only to be regarded as\n\ntemporary arrangement.\n\nWith respect to the\n\naugmentation of\n\nthe\n\nPecuniary salary which\n\nhe\n\nhas to do the work;\n\nConsider if the\n\noffice. In making\n\nIn Mr. Reinach's\n\nretirement,\n\non which\n\nthe Governor sternly confidently\n\nthe formal proper to rely, if an efficient\n\nPerson the event of a late Reinach's retirement from the Office, the Governor will be prepared to consider\n\nthe subject when the\n\noccasion\n\narrives.\n\nthe\n\nMinor be appointed His place vidla by necessary staff of Clerks,\n\nconduct the\n\nTreasury affairs of such\n\nColonial property.\n\nI suspect a\n\nMuchenten unmeritorious\n\nin a\n\nKeeper\n\nthen we do.\n\nthis amount\n\nwe do? But we can do no more than make\n\nthe office temporary,\n\nas rightly com...\n\nMINUTE MR Bd. H Elliott\n\nNo. 107\n\nFor Yong Hong Kong.\n\n7020\n\nTer,\n\nAud\n\n27\n\nMr Merivale M.J.Ball\n\neclaboushen\n\nW.M.\n\n£250.\n\nI have received\n\nyour Despatch reporting\n\nyour\n\nnomination of\n\nMr.\n\nAlfred Weatherhead to a\n\nClerkship in the Treasury\n\nat Hong Kong with a salary of\n\nFive Hundred\n\nand fifty pounds per\n\nannum.\n\nOn the distinct\n\nunderstanding that this appointment is only temporary, and for the purpose of clearing off the arrears in the Office,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 239035, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "page_number": 444, "title": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "content_text": "1886\n\nCont\n\n3 June 87\n\n\"\n\n58\n\n89\n\n2\n\n442\n\nGour Bearings 13\n\nnamed Samarany Reporting\n\nOverpayment to Commissariat\n\nChest on account\n\nof\n\nForestate Estates.\" Reports\n\nporticators.\n\nExtra Assistance to Treasury\n\nCommission. Reports.\n\nSuccessor to Mr Riinaecker Mr Alfred Weatherhead's appointment\n\nTreasury Clerkship, Reports.\n\nW.F. Beran deting Clock\n\nto Chief Justice Relative to appointment and salary of\n\nZeis scurrilous Attacks on the Local Authorities, in his capacity as\n\nEditor of\n\nthe Hong Kong Register\n\nDraws thecal attention to\n\nSaluting Battery Sanwards\n\nCorrespondence with Military\n\nauthorities on\n\nsubject of the\n\nproper site for and power of selection &c.\n\n5 92 Ordinance No 9 of 1886\n\nShipping Regulations hulmin. for Confirmation.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 240714, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856", "page_number": 157, "title": "CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856", "content_text": "dearly ascertained that the Revenue of the Colony is sufficient to meet the several charges imposed upon it.\n\nThey would at the earliest Call the attention of Mr. Labouchere to the Moral recommendations recently received regarding increased expenditure at Hong Kong.\n\nJousin, to the Governor against speedily giving also the sanction the Estimates.\n\nMr. Merivale,\n\nMeaus. form obedient servant,\n\nArj buthnot.\n\n13576.\n\n8.\n\nGout 6029\n\n7028.\n\nGor. informed. 5 Sept. 1st.\n\nOff with for. 7028,\n\n50€\n\nRECEIVED\n\nAUG 26\n\n1836\n\n155\n\nTreasury Chamber,\n\n25 August 1856.\n\n\"I am commanded to acquaint you for the information of Mr. Secretary Labouchere, that the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury are pleased to approve of the appointment of Mr. Alfred Weatherhead to a Clerkship in the Secretary's Office at Hong Kong, with a Salary of two hundred and fifty pounds per annum, as proposed to your Lordship.\n\nMerivale", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 240968, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856", "page_number": 411, "title": "CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856", "content_text": "1836\n\nTreasury\n\nJuly 26 Intestates Estates - Unclaimed Balances before 12th July/49 £1208.19. paid into Commissariat Chest on account of – Reports having authorized Commissariat Office to repay £19.3.9. paid into Commissariat Chest in error, on account of these Balances\n\nAug 5. Temporary additions to Harbor Master's Dept Approves. Cost of removing Convicts to Penang, of £218:15:11 Sanctions Expre Works in Wong nei chung Valley. – Jants Expenda of £5000.\n\nErection of Central Police Station and Police Station at West Point. will not object to, if the Revenues of the Colony are sufficient to meet the expense.\n\nMr Weatherhead's Appointt to Clerkship in the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241218, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "page_number": 243, "title": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "content_text": "I beg to lay before them the terms of the Deportation Ordinance, and with regard to recent deportees and with this view respectfully suggest that the Prisoners be sent to some secure place in the Island of Formosa.\n\nHoughong 9th February 1857.\n\n(sd) B. Boken by W. Mr. Norton\n\n(.) Jas. Stephenson. (.) Mr. H. Donnelly\n\n(a) M. A. Harland, M.D. (.) Weatherhead\n\n(.) I. A. Bhaldecott (0) J. E. Jackson\n\n(.) G. W. Lawrence (.) W. Lambert. (^) A. W. Phipps (2) M. Bodell.\n\nI. P. R. Lawrence. (Walter Ormiston\n\n(+) Henry W. Irvine (.) Albert Smith\n\n(.) Henry Davis (.) Willy Ross\n\n(.) N. Dunn\n\n(〃) (.)397. Augier\n\n(.) Gustav Behie\n\n(0) John Ashton.\n\n \n\n241\n\nDp 1 Aug. Nelson. (192) John Lapraik.\n\n(+) J. Carroll Dempster (+) Jas. Smith.\n\n(.) N. Crosby Jr. (.) W. W. Devine\n\n(.) E. W. Hordy. (2.) G. G. Vanscheur\n\n(+) Ludwig Miese. (.) Geo. Blathering\n\n(2) Guruva Wodrip (2) J. Lemnow (.) H. Marsh. (.) H. Schaeffer\n\n(.) G. A. Roesing\n\n(•) F. Woods\n\n(+) D. Ruttuujee (0) W. Schaeffer\n\n(+ Deorge A. F. Norris (0) L. Kroes. (•) G. Embrecht (.) Henry C. Endicott\n\n) James West. (.) William F. Russell\n\n(.) Tred: W. Harsant (1) Fred: W. Green\n\n(+.) F. A. Lane. (.) E. Overbeck.\n\n(〃) Thed. C. Webb.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241857, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 283, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "that you will draw His Excellency the Governor's attention to the numerical insufficiency of the officers attached to the Supreme Court. I humbly take this opportunity again to refer His Excellency to the Registrar's Letter No 15-1886 and I to suggest that the \n\nreappointment of a Clerk of Court - such as mentioned \n\ntherein is the only mode of \n\npreventing \n\nthe duties \n\nin the \n\nRegistrar's Department of the Supreme Court being thrown \n\nso \n\nfrequently on one person.\n\n5.\n\n280\n\nthereby greatly impeding public business and subjecting (in \n\nthe event of the sickness of the \n\none \n\nOfficer) delays and difficulties in the execution of Court business.\n\nI am not yet in a position to report on M. Weatherhead's application - but will take the earliest opportunity\n\nof so doing.\n\nI have &c:\n\n(Signed) N. R. Mason\n\nActing Registrar.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nW.I. Brereton\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 242494, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "page_number": 380, "title": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "content_text": "A credible source that His Excellency Admiral Sir Michael Seymour has written to the Home Govt strongly recommending that an increase might be made in the salaries of the Naval Yard Officers, he having perceived that in the present time it would be impossible for those Gentlemen to subsist, great though they have the advantage of free quarters.\n\nHaving respectfully submitted this, we have therefore thrown ourselves on the generosity of His Excellency, well assured that it will not be in vain, and are, &c.:\n\n| Name | Signature/Reference |\n| --- | --- |\n| George Malipiers | (Lig.) |\n| J. Thornton | 2W.St. Divine |\n| C. Collins | 150 |\n| G.A.F. Wilson | ? • |\n| A. Watherhead | 〃 |\n| James L. Butter | 1 \" 3 \" |\n| J. Collins | - |\n| Jor. Niblett | - |\n| Henry Gunthorp | - |\n| Joseph Scott | - |\n\n(True Copy) \nM.S. DIndyw \nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\n378", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247195, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "page_number": 496, "title": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "content_text": "The M. Hon. Sir E. Lytton, Bart.\n\nLovewell for John Bowring 30th April 1859.\n\nVictoria, Secretariat,\n\nReceived\n\nNo. 75.\n\nof the office of Chief Magistrate\n\nReporting Mr. Davies resignation\n\n76.\n\nExecutive\n\nAnnex. 20 July 59.\n\n3.4.C\n\nE\n\n11 JUL 1859.\n\nSir,\n\nGovernment Offices, Victoria,\n\nHouston, 30th April, 1859.\n\nI have the honor to report that with the concurrence of the Executive Council, I have this day granted to Mr. Alfred Weatherhead, clerk of the Supreme Court, 18 month's leave of absence to proceed to England, on account of ill health. I enclose herein the usual Certificate of leave, and I hope\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nSir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart., M.P.,\n\n \n[...]\n\nPage information remains as is if detected, but there isn't any clear \"Page XX\" format in the given text.\n\nCorrected and formatted according to the given rules:\n\n1. **Format** — The text is transformed into HTML using `` for paragraphs.\n2. **Reasonable adding of words and re-ordering**: Some minor corrections were made to make the text more coherent.\n3. **Correct spelling errors** — Errors like \"M. Mon. Bir hd. B.\" to \"M. Hon. 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Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247196, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "page_number": 497, "title": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "content_text": "Ent\n\nyou\n\nwill approve of\n\nA\n\nthe\n\narrangement made for the temporary discharge of his duties by Mr. Huffum the Judge's Clerk.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nC\n\nWith the\n\nSituation\n\nArment\n\nAB. 11 July.\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nyour Obedient Servant,\n\nRumble\n\n476\n\n6875\n\n494\n\nAmy King\n\nThe office administering\n\nthe government's 20th July/59.\n\nMINUTE\n\nHongkong.\n\nNo 4.\n\n1859\n\nDriving for return. 13. BC Fortescue 15\n\nDifficulty would be 18.\n\nI have received\n\nSir John Bowring's\n\ndespatch No. of the 30th of April,\n\nand thank you for the leave\n\nof absence for 18 months granted to Mr. Alfred\n\nWeatherhead, Clerk of the Supreme Court. Thanks", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247197, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "page_number": 498, "title": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "content_text": "I hereby Certify, that with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of Government, I have granted to Mr Alfred Weatherhead Eighteen Months' leave of absence.\n\nWilliam\n\nGovernor,\n\n495\n\nVICTORIA, HONGKONG,\n\n30th April, 1859.\n\nI hereby Certify, that Mr A. Weatherhead has received Full Salary at the rate of £300 per Annum as clerk of the Supreme Court, up to the 31st of May, 1859.\n\n5th\n\nColonial Treasurer.\n\nNOTE. Officers proceeding on leave of absence are requested to observe, that they will not be enabled to receive Half Salary in England unless this Certificate is duly filled up and signed.\n\n[TURN OVER.]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247198, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "page_number": 499, "title": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "content_text": "I hereby Certify,\n\n1st, That the above leave was granted to commence on the 5th Day of May 1859 and end on the [Day] of November 1860, on the ground of ill health, and that the Medical Certificate was produced of which a copy is annexed.\n\n2d, That Mr Alfred Weatherhead has served the Crown for one year, ten months, and 4 Days.\n\n3d, That in the course of that Service he has been absent on leave on several occasions, at the dates and for the terms specified below, viz:\n\nIn the year 1858. — 11 Days.\n\nI certify that Dr Caldecott, late Acting Colonial Surgeon, has been attending Mr. A. Weatherhead, Clerk of the Supreme Court, for the last 9 months for Irritable Stricture of the Urethra and chronic disease of the Kidney's. The disease has latterly very much increased and on careful examination of Mr. Weatherhead, I am of opinion that he can derive benefit from further treatment in China and that an immediate return to England is absolutely necessary. I further declare my belief that he will not be able to resume his duties in less than one year.\n\nStaff Surgeon.\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong, 15th April, 1889.\n\nClerk to the Supreme Court.\n\n477. That provision has been made for the due execution of Mr Alfred Weatherhead's duties during his absence by the appointment of Mr F. S. H. ...\n\nChief Justice.-\n\nNOTE—Officers who may be under the necessity of applying to the Secretary of State for an extension of their leave of absence, are requested to annex this document to their applications; and in order to meet this contingency, it will be furnished to them in duplicate.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nPage 496\n\n...\n\nJohn Bowring\n\nGovernor.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247199, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "page_number": 500, "title": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "content_text": "Despatch N. 765/1859.\n\nEnclosure in\n\n1.77. Executive.\n\n12031.\n\nReceived 11 JUL 1859.\n\nHong Kong Government offices, Victoria,\n\nAugust 25, 1859.\n\nI have the honor to announce that I have this day assumed the Provisional government of this Colony under the terms of the Royal Charter, and in accordance with your Despatch N.69 of 9th December last. His Excellency Sir John Bowring will leave for England on board the P. and O. steamer.\n\n[To] The Right Honorable Sir Edward B. Lytton, Bt, M.P.\n\nCertificate of leave of absence granted to Mr. Weatherhead, Clerk of the Supreme Court 9th April 1859.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247728, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 402, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "398\n\n(119)\n\nMr L. D'Almada. It is possible Mr Gibb might have mistaken me for my brother.\n\nMr Anstey. There is no mistake in the matter. Mr Jozé D'Almada was here in this Court but a few minutes since, Mr Mitchell the Sheriff saw him.\n\nCourt. Dr Chaldecott might give some explanation.\n\nMr Anstey. I now give notice that if on Monday next, any of the witnesses subpœnaed are absent, I shall not be satisfied with written certificates, but shall insist on Dr Chaldecott being sworn, and personally examined as to their state of health.\n\n5343.\n\nTHE QUEEN v. TARRANT.\n\n(118)\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG. Criminal Sessions, November 18th 1858. REGINA V. TARRANT.\n\nAt the opening of the Court this day, the Hon'ble T. Chisholm Anstey, Attorney General, Counsel for the defendant, addressed the Court, as follows,\n\nor March, as nearly as possible. 7th Why he did not, before the end of June, inform the Legislative Council that the documents had been destroyed, and that the production of them, therefore, which had been demanded, again and again, could not take place. 8th If destroyed, what were the contents of those documents, and how far they affected Mr Caldwell or any other officer of Government. Lastly a full, true and complete account of the proceedings.\n\nMr Green. Sir John Bowring is as much bound not to reveal what took place in the Council as the Colonial Secretary or any other public servant.\n\nwith others, to the said Government against Daniel Richard Caldwell, Esquire, Registrar General of the Colony and submitted to the investigation of a Commission appointed for that purpose by Sir John Bowring, the Governor of the said Colony, and which said charge might have been satisfactorily proved before the said Commission, but for the interference of the said Government to prevent the Crown.\n\n(This report is from the shorthand notes taken for the Crown by Mr Weatherhead, Acting Deputy Registrar.)\n\nMy LORD, Some material witnesses are absent; nevertheless, I am quite ready to go on with the case. It is likely to last two days. Mr Davies writes me that being at Macao he cannot appear before Monday, and though the prosecutors have not condescended to notify us of the matter, I have heard, vaguely, that Dr Chaldecott is prepared to swear that Sir John Bowring is unable to appear in this Court, though quite able to drive out in his carriage and go to other places.\n\nCourt. If you are not in a position to go through with it, the case had better be postponed altogether.\n\nMr Anstey. A murrain appears to have visited all the officers of the Government. Another states that he is laid up with a badly inflamed leg. However, I suppose we must bow to the will of Providence, and submit to a postponement.\n\n'pose that it was not performed after deep meditation, and \"with reference to consequences.”\n\nTRIAL.\n\nMonday, 22nd November, 1858.\n\nFor the Crown. The Hon'ble F. W. Green, Esquire, Acting Attorney General, Mr George Cooper Turner, Crown Solicitor.\n\nFor the Defendant. The Hon'ble Thomas Chisholm Anstey, Esquire, Attorney General, Mr Henry Jefferd Tarrant, Attorney.\n\nSPECIAL JURY.\n\nPatrick Campbell Esq., Manager of the Oriental Bank Corporation, (British). John Costerton Esq., Manager of the Incorporated Mercantile Bank of India, London and China, (British). N. M. Beckwith, Esq., of the firm of Russell & Co., (American). Francis Chomley, Esq., of the firm of Dent & Co., (British). Francis Parker, Esq., of the firm of Augustine Heard & Co., (American). Phillip Cohen, Esq., of the firm of Phillips Moore & Co., (British). Albert Vaucher, Esq., of the firm of Vaucher & Co., (Swiss).\n\nThe Jury being sworn, the Acting Registrar read the INFORMATION.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nThe Eighteenth day of November, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.\n\nHONGKONG TO WIT.\n\nMr Anstey. Sir John Bowring is at perfect liberty to reveal any of the proceedings of Government to all the world, and exercises the power whenever he thinks fit.\n\nCourt. There is no doubt that Sir John Bowring stands in a very different position in that respect from the other officers of Government. The trial must stand over for the present until the parties now unable to appear recover their health. I cannot appoint a day until they are well.\n\nMr Anstey. As we cannot have de bene esse examination in criminal cases, it would be an advantage to take the evidence of such of the witnesses as are now present.\n\nMr Green. Might it not be possible by making certain admissions to dispense with the evidence of Sir John Bowring?\n\nCourt to Mr Anstey. Your's is an application for postponement on account of the absence of material witnesses.\n\nMr Anstey. I propose that we go on with the case as far as we can.\n\n(Signed) FREDK. WM. GREEN.\n\nWilliam Tarrant, take notice that you will be tried on this information at the Criminal Sessions at the Supreme Court to be holden at Victoria in and for the Colony of Hongkong, on the eighteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, and following days.\n\nA. WEATHERHEAD,\n\nfor the Registrar.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nCriminal Sessions, October, 1858.\n\nThe Queen against William Tarrant.\n\nThe Queen comes into the Court here and charges William Tarrant of the Colony of Hongkong aforesaid, Editor and Proprietor of the Newspaper called the Friend of China, with having, with intent to move the Queen's subjects to hatred and contempt of the Queen's Government in the said Colony, and to cause it to be believed that a certain grave and scandalous charge having been preferred.\n\nMr Anstey being suspended from office was at liberty to act for the defendant.\n\nSECOND PLEA. And for a further plea to the said Information, the said defendant, protesting that he is not guilty as aforesaid, nevertheless, according to the form of the statute in such case provided, says that the said alleged libel in the said Information mentioned was printed and published by him the said defendant, after the passing of the Act of Parliament of the seventh year of the Queen, chapter twenty-six, to wit on the day and year in the said Information mentioned and not otherwise.\n\nDr Chaldecott.—It is impossible for me to fix a date.\n\nMr Anstey.—A week say?\n\nDr Chaldecott.—I should say not, decidedly.\n\nMr Anstey.—Well then, a fortnight perhaps.\n\nDr Chaldecott. It is impossible to say. All I can say is that he is not at present in a fit state to appear in Court.\n\nCourt to Mr Anstey.—What do you wish Sir John Bowring to prove?\n\nMr Anstey. I will state the points required, 1st, I wish to have the documents produced specified in the Subpœna Duces Tecum. 2d All that he knows respecting the receipt of, and the parting with Mr May's memoranda, and the papers respecting Mr Caldwell and Ma-chow Wong on which those memoranda were framed. 3d What took place in the Executive Council respecting these memo. Mr D'Almada having declined to reveal any of the proceedings on the plea of official secrecy. 4th Whether Sir John Bowring knew what became of the memoranda, and the like as to the Ma-chow Wong papers themselves. 5th Whether he gave any and what directions or suggestions respecting the safe keeping or destruction of those documents or any of them. 6th When were those papers destroyed to the best of his belief, whether in May.\n\nMr Anstey. I only want Sir John to give permission to his officers to make the admissions and afford the information required.\n\nCourt. Very well, let it be so.\n\n[Mr Anstey here applies to have the Jury drawn now by the Registrar, so that only those need attend on Monday who would be actually required.]\n\nCourt. They must all appear again on Monday.\n\nMr Anstey. The whole of them?\n\nCourt. Yes.\n\nMr Anstey. I have just been informed by Mr Gibb, whose word no man doubts, that one of the absent witnesses, Mr J. D'Almada, was in Court just now, and present at the very time of my commenting on the circumstance of so many of the Government officers being prevented by illness from attending. I submit that this is a gross contempt of Court, and deserves some notice from your Lordship.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. 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Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "(117)\n\n'jects in China, for the purpose of being examined by Messrs Mongan and Caldwell, or either of them; the original memorandum or circular of His Excellency Sir John Bowring dated the Twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty eight, addressed to all public departments for their information and guidance, and any copy draft of or extract from the same, and all letters or copies of letters of the said William Thomas Bridges then Acting Colonial Secretary covering the same to such departments, all correspondence and copies of correspondence official and private between you or either of you and Thomas Wade, Esquire, at present Chinese Secretary, between the Thirtieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven, and the day of the trial of the Information referred to herein, and all other documents letters, books, papers, instruments and writings, and copies of documents, letters, books, papers, instruments and writings in your possession, custody or power, or under your control in any way relating to or connected with the matters now at issue.\n\nHis Excellency Sir John Bowring, Knight LL.D. Governor of the Colony of Hongkong, and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British subjects in China, &c., &c., was served with a Subpœna duces tecum to produce.\n\nDOCKET.\n\nSent to Court on 9th November---The Deputy Registrar refused to issue---The Judge subsequently ordered issue and the Registrar to forward to Colonial Secretary---Gave Registrar copy for service.\n\n(Signed)\n\nH. TARRANT Defendant's Attorney.\n\nAlr A. S. Dixson, Government Printer, Mr A. Grand-Pre Collector of Police Rates. Mr Jozé D'Almada, Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office, Mr W. H. Mitchell, Sheriff and Assistant Magistrate, and Mr James Jarman, Inspector of Police.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nCriminal Jurisdiction.\n\nREGINA\n\nV2\n\nTake notice that I, on behalf of Defendant (by Counsel) shall, on the Trial of this case TARRANT object to the Special Jury Panel herein, as struck on the thirteenth instant, on the grounds of the Defendant having had no notice of the nomination thereof and of Twelve Special Jurors only being returned by the Sheriff.\n\n(116)\n\nThe only parties subpoenaed by the Crown were Dr Bridges and Mr Mongan.\n\nHONGKONG\n\nTO WIT.\n\nSUBPŒNA DUCES TECUM.\n\n(Criminal Jurisdiction.)\n\nVictoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, to Norman Ramsay Masson, of Victoria in Hongkong, Acting Registrar of our Supreme Court of Hongkong, Greeting,\n\nyou\n\nF\n\nsame on the Hon'ble H. 'T. Davies, Esq., Chief Magistrate of Police.\n\nAdditional notices were served on Messrs Forth and to the following effect.\n\n(K\n\n\"You (Mr Forth) to produce all papers in your office, possession, power, custody, or control, relative to the evidence taken by the Caldwell Commission---also all correspondence and copy correspondence of William Thomas Bridges Esquire, or His Excellency the Governor with yourselves or each other, or between any or either of you, touching the constitution of the Caldwell Commission and the omission of your name.\n\nAnd\n\n\"You (Mr Davies) to produce all correspondence and copies of correspondence between yourself and William Thomas Bridges, Esquire, regarding the Caldwell enquiry---Minutes of the meeting of Justices convened on or convening same, and all correspondence and copy correspondence about or connected with Assow the Interpreter.\n\nThe Hon'ble Charles St. George Cleverly, Esquire, Surveyor General and Charles May Esquire, Superintendent of Police, were served with subpœnas to produce.\n\nWe command you, that laying aside all and singular business and excuses, you and every of you, be and appear in your proper persons before our Chief Justice of our Supreme Court of our Colony of Hongkong, at Victoria, on the Twenty second day of November instant, at 12 of the Clock noon of the same day, and following days until discharged, and also that you bring with and produce at the time and place aforesaid the original or copy of the circular or memorandum of His Excellency Sir John Bowring, dated the twenty-sixth day of January 1858, addressed to all the public departments of the Colony of Hongkong for the information and guidance thereof, with the letter forwarding you such circular or memorandum; also the Queen's Colonial Service Regulations, or a copy thereof, all other documents, letters, books, papers, instruments and writings, and copies of documents letters, books, papers instruments and writings in your possession, custody or power, or under your control in any way relating thereto, or in any way relating to or connected with the matters now at issue between ourselves and one William Tarrant, in respect of the information for Libel filed by our Acting Attorney General in our Supreme Court of Hongkong in its Criminal Jurisdiction, against the said William Tarrant, dated the eighteenth day of November aforesaid, or containing any entry, memorandum or minute in any wise relating to such matters so at issue as aforesaid, and also there and then to testify and shew all and singular those things which you know concerning the matter so at issue between ourselves and the said Defendant; and this you, or any of you shall by no means omit, under the penalty upon each of you of One Hundred Dollars.\n\nDated, November 16th, 1858.\n\nTo G. TURNER, Esq., Crown Solicitor.\n\n(Signed)\n\n\"Certain paper writings and books in the Chinese language seized on the premises of one Wong Akee otherwise Ma-chow Wong, now a convict in the Gaol of Victoria, including that portion thereof which you, in the month of October 1857, directed should be sent from the Police office or come to the office of the Superintendent of the Trade of British subjects in China, for the purpose of being examined by Messrs Mongan and Caldwell;---the original of your memorandum or circular of the 26th January 1858, addressed to all Public Departments for their information and guidance;---letters or copies of the letters of the then Acting Colonial Secretary covering same to such departments;---and all other letters, books, papers, instruments and writings whatsoever, and copies of documents, letters, books, papers, instruments and writings in your possession, custody or power or under your control, in any way relating to or connected with the matters now at issue between Her Majesty the Queen and one William Tarrant in respect of the Information filed by Her said Majesty's Acting Attorney General against the said William Tarrant, dated the 18th day of November 1858, or containing any entry memorandum or minute in any wise relating to such matters so at issue as aforesaid; and also, then and there to testify and shew all and singular those things which you know on the trial of a certain Information for Libel filed in our said Supreme Court at Victoria, in its Criminal Jurisdiction by Her said Majesty's Acting Attorney General against the said William Tarrant, and dated the 19th day of November aforesaid.\n\nof the firm of Gibb, Livingston & Co.---William Lamont John Darby Gibb, Esquire J. P., Managing Partner Esquire J. P., Sub-manager of the Oriental Bank Corporation---Ludwig Wiese, Esquire, Managing Partner of the house of Siemssen & Co.---N. L. Beckwith, Esquire Managing Partner of the American house of Russell & Co.,---G. L. Wiener, Esquire, Consul for Austria, Managing Partner of the Hongkong branch of Lindsay & Co and Nicolay Duus, Esquire, Consul for Sweden and Norway, Managing Partner of the firm of N. Duus & Co.]\n\nWITNESS, The Honourable JOHN WALTER HULME, Esquire, Our Chief Justice of our said Colony, at Victoria, the Twenty-second day of November, in the Twenty-second year of our reign, 1858.\n\nSealed by\n\nHENRY JEFFERD TARRANT, Defendant's Attorney, Queen's Road, Victoria.\n\nA. WEATHERHEAD, for the Registrar.\n\nA similar subpœna was served on the Hon'ble Frederick Forth, Esq., Acting Colonial Secretary, and the same on Mr Leonardo D'Almada e Castro, Clerk of Councils and Chief Clerk to the said Acting Colonial Secretary, and the\n\n\"The following documents, to wit, you, the said Charles St. George Cleverly, all letters and copies of letters referred to by you in your deposition, and documents relative to the Caldwell Commission and the printing of its proceedings; and you the said Charles May all correspondence and copy correspondence between yourself and any person or persons whomsoever, relative to or in any way connected with the Caldwell enquiry, or any matters connected therewith, either previous to its issuing or during or subsequent to its sitting; and each of you, the said Charles St. George Cleverly and Charles May, all other documents, letters, books, papers, instruments and writings, in your or either of your possession, custody or control, or copies, in any way relating to or connected with the matters at issue between ourselves and one William Tarrant, in respect of an Information for Libel filed by our Acting Attorney General against the said William Tarrant, and dated the eighteenth instant, or containing any entry memorandum or minute in any wise relating to such matters so at issue.\n\nWilliam Thomas Bridges of Victoria, D.C.L. Barrister at law and James Mongan Assistant Chinese Secretary were also subpœnaed by the defendant to produce.\n\n\"All paper writings and books in the Chinese language seized on the premises of one Wong Akee, otherwise Ma-chow Wong, now a convict in the Gaol of Victoria, including that portion thereof which His Excellency Sir John Bowring in the month of September one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven directed should be sent from the Police office or Court, to the office of the Superintendent of the Trade of British subjects in China, for the purpose of being examined by Messrs Mongan and Caldwell;", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247730, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 404, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "400\n\n(115)\n\nThe defendant being called upon to make any statement he might think proper through his Counsel, The Hon'ble the Attorney General, states as follows:-\n\n(114)\n\nthe Mail, that certain money transactions with Foreigners were referred to in Ma-chow Wong's books, referred to Mr Lane was examined after me.\n\nThis examination there was more than one such letter. I recollect that the China Mail. Ma-chow Wong connection was the source from which [The said China Mail of 15th October is exhibited to the danger was apprehended. There was a letter relating the witness, and six letters printed at 595, columns Caldwell. I had known of other transactions with foreigners, but as those were of mere business matters, I do not There was one relating to the Supreme Court Interpreters. tion now, or formerly, to impute to Her Majesty's Government any share in the trick of which, in his conscience enquiry. I believe they form the whole of it. Colonial Secretary, dated, I believe, in July 1857, relating he believes himself to have offered full proof as againstter of 6th October was the only summons I got to verbal statement.\n\nThe wise I should not have inserted them, even upon Mr May's to a speech made by Eli Boggs in his defence on his trial certain Officers of that Government. He meant, and he attend before the Council. Having been by that letter for piracy, in which he apostrophized Mr Caldwell then means the word Government in its vulgar and improper sense, in which it denotes a plurality of public servants rate letters from Mr Inglis and Mr May, which were in and in this case, Dr Bridges, Mr Caldwell and whatsoever niess desired by the Governor, informing me, however The Council appeared to be perfectly astonished. Dr formant. He wrote me in reply that he could not attend, in, produced his memoranda, and read them, item by item the nature of reports to the Government on the same sub-subordinate Officers were aiding and abetting in the trick that he had memoranda which bore out my statements Bridges said he did not know whether he was standing on ject, and dated I believe, shortly after Mr Anstey's letters. His only regret is that he did not expressly say so, in the All these letters were laid before the Commission. As far article which is the subject of this prosecution, and the relating to Ma-chow Wong, which memoranda he (Mr his head or his heels, and asked, \"Why have I not seen as my recollection goes, it is not true that those letters by his omission he has enabled the guilty parties to decouncil. I then (12th October) went to the Council, was tion which I forget. The Governor then referred Mr May May) would bring with him if required to attend the those documents before?\" Mr May gave some explana- contain no imputations on Mr Caldwell, but, on the con- grade the name of Her Majesty by uniting it with their examined, and, with Mr May's permission, left in His Ex- to Mr Mongan's translation. Mr Mongan was then called trary, did intimate that the connection between him and own, and so far he has to apologize for it.” Ma-chow Wong was unbecoming and dangerous. I recol-\n\ncellency's hands Mr May's notes, and, I believe I also fur-in and in answer to the Governor's question stated that he lect there was a reference in Mr Inglis's letter as to a family Supreme Court.\n\nDefendant stands committed to take his trial before the nished Mr Almada the Clerk of Councils with a copy of had not made a very close examination of the books but connection between Mr Caldwell and Ma-chow Wong, by the note, and made that a ground for requesting that the merely a cursory one. The Council then broke up in blood or usage. I strongly differ with Dr Bridges as to original might be returned, which was done accordingly some confusion, and I believe Mr May left his memoranda only one reference having been made by the Attorney General to the danger of employing Mr Caldwell in any do not know what became of the original note, but will in their hands. The documents read by Mr May were neral to the danger of employing Mr Caldwell in any look for it. In returning me the note, Mr Almada remind the same I had previously perused. I do not think Mr matter of state or police. As far as my recollection serves ed me that the proceedings of the Council were confidential. I declined to act upon that intimation. In my ex the sworn evidence of Dr Bridges, as to the contents of tial. I declined to act upon that intimation. In my examination before the Council, I placed the original in His the three letters of July 1857, was very far from a correct Excellency's hands, to show that I was prepared with not refer to a connection between Ma-chow Wong and Pi- proofs, through Mr May, of substantiating what I had stated rates, but to the connection between Mr Caldwell and Ma- in the China Mail. The Governor said \"we have got a translation of May's memorandum, but they do not bear out your statements\" (meaning the statement in the China Mail of the 17th September, which His Excellency had chow Wong.\n\n(Signed)\n\nH. T. DAVIES\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nThe Queen against William Tarrant.\n\nI the above-named defendant make oath and say as follows:-\n\n1st-On the twelfth day of this present month of October, I was committed by William Henry Mitchell, Esq., Assistant Police Magistrate, to take my trial for libel in this matter in the said Court at the suit of the Queen, but I was permitted by the said Magistrate to go at large upon entering into my own recognizances in the sum of five hundred pounds to appear at the said trial.\n\n2d-No bill hath as yet been found against me to the best of my belief.\n\n3rd-I have repeatedly applied at the office of the said Magistrate for a complete copy of the Information and Depositions in this matter, offering to make the same, if necessary, at my own expense, but without success.\n\n4th-I believe that the said Information and Depositions have not as yet been sent by the said Magistrate into this Court.\n\n(Signed)\n\nW. TARRANT.\n\nW. H. MITCHELL.\n\n(Signed)\n\nI certify the above to be a true copy.\n\nA. WEATHERHEAD, Clerk of Court.\n\nSworn at the Supreme Court of Hongkong, this 28th day of October, A. D. 1858.\n\nBefore me\n\n(Signed)\n\nThe Queen\n\nv. Tarrant.\n\nA WEATHERHEAD,\n\nA Commissioner.\n\nTrue Copy\n\n(Signed)\n\nDOCKET.\n\nAffidavit of Defendant\n\nFiled 29th October, 1858.\n\nA. W.\n\nN. R. MASSON, Acting Registrar\n\n29th October, 1858.\n\nMotion by Mr Anstey. Ordered that the depositions be forthwith returned into Court.\n\nDefendant in person.\n\n(Signed) N. R. MASSON.\n\n[Reads Mr May's secondary evidence of the contents of his memoranda, as given at page 37 of the printed evidence.]\n\nI remember the items from one to six, both inclusive. With exception of payments to Police Runners, I do not remember item No. 7. If there had been shown or read to me such a paper I must have remembered it.\n\nNo. 8, I do not remember; if it had been read or exhibited I should have recollected it.\n\nNo. 9, I make the same observation as to this item.\n\nNo. 10, The same.\n\nNo. 11, The same.\n\nNo. 12, I remember.\n\nNo. 13, I remember.\n\nNo. 14. I do not remember.\n\nNo. 15, I remember the entry had some reference to the village of Chim sa chui, as the receiving place of the stolen silks.\n\nin his hand.) There was great deal of conversation about the memorandum, in which I defended my statements on their authority. His Excellency then ordered Mr May to attend forthwith. I also gave into the Governor's hands a Bill of Exchange drawn by Ma-chow Wong on a pirate leader in Shanghae. I have that bill now in my examination my possession; the amount is $3,000. Before closed, Mr Mongan was called in, and produced the alleged translation of the documents. The translation was read aloud by Mr Mongan. I said at once.-\"Those cannot be the same documents.\" I was perfectly astonished. I think the Governor asked Mr Mongan whether he had made the translation himself, or could guarantee its correctness or something to that effect, and he replied that he believed it to be correct. He added that he had been directed to assist Mr Caldwell in making it, I do not recollect whether Mr May was there during Mr Mongan's examination.\n\nNo. 16, I do remember.\n\nNo. 17, The same.\n\nNo. 18, I recollect. I recollect there were some very heavy payments to Ma-chow Wong, as representing the Sunon people, in Copper Cash, for Lottery tickets, as well as Gambling-houses. These entries were very heavy numerically. I feel assured that I did not see all Mr May's memoranda.\n\n(Signed)\n\nAND. S. DIXSON.\n\nThe Hon'ble H. T. DAVIES,-recalled states. There were several letters produced before the Caldwell Commission, having dates between October and May last, from the Colonial Secretary's Office, in which reference was made to the danger of employing Mr Caldwell as a public servant. Those letters were from the Attorney General to the Acting Colonial Secretary. I feel certain Mr Mongan did not sit down, but stood on the Governor's left hand. His Excellency examined me chiefly with regard to those of my statements which were afterwards justified by the memoranda, His Excellency requested proofs of all my other statements, which, owing to the lapse of time I was unable to furnish. My statement in the China Mail of the 17th September was justified by the memoranda.\n\nPage 401", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. 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S. 29 July 159.\n\nI am directed\n\nby the Duke of Newcastle to\n\nacknowledge the receipt of your\n\nletter\n\nof\n\nthe 12\n\nHL\n\nInstant, reporting\n\nyour\n\narrival in\n\nthis Country\n\nне\n\nleave.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248808, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "page_number": 411, "title": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "content_text": "I enclose herein the usual certificate of leave, and I hope the You will approve of arrangement made for the arrang. made for the temporary discharge of his duties by Mr. Happin Juages Clarke;\n\nI have the honor to be With the highest respect Sir, Your most Obedient Humble Servant Jhuthern\n\n† I hereby Certify, that with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of Government, I have granted to Mr Alfred Weatherhead Eighteen Months' leave of absence.\n\nPage 405\n\nVICTORIA, HONGKONG, 30th April, 1859\n\nWhuBarnut Governor.\n\nI hereby Certify, that Mr A. Weatherhead has received Full Salary at the rate of £30... per Annum as Clerk of the Supreme Court up to the 5th of May, 1859\n\nStrut For In. Colonial Treasurer.\n\nNOTE.- Officers proceeding on leave of absence are requested to observe, that they will not be enabled to receive Half Salary in England unless this Certificate is duly filled up and signed.\n\n[TURN OVER.]\n\nCorrected version in HTML as per the instructions:\n\nI enclose herein the usual certificate of leave, and I hope You will approve of the arrangement made for the temporary discharge of his duties by Mr. Happin James Clarke;\n\nI have the honor to be With the highest respect Sir, Your most Obedient Humble Servant Southern\n\n† I hereby Certify, that with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of Government, I have granted to Mr Alfred Weatherhead Eighteen Months' leave of absence.\n\nVICTORIA, HONGKONG, 30th April, 1859\n\nRobt. W. Keating Governor.\n\nI hereby Certify, that Mr A. Weatherhead has received Full Salary at the rate of £300 per Annum as Clerk of the Supreme Court up to the 5th of May, 1859\n\nW. H. S. Griffith Colonial Treasurer.\n\nNOTE.- Officers proceeding on leave of absence are requested to observe, that they will not be enabled to receive Half Salary in England unless this Certificate is duly filled up and signed.\n\n[TURN OVER.]\n\nLet me reformat to follow the exact output instruction using HTML.\n\nI enclose herein the usual certificate of leave, and I hope\n\nYou will approve of the\n\narrangement made for the temporary discharge of his duties by Mr. Happin James Clarke;\n\nI have the honor to be\n\nWith the highest respect Sir, Your most Obedient Humble Servant Southern\n\n† I hereby Certify, that with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of Government, I have granted to Mr Alfred Weatherhead Eighteen Months' leave of absence.\n\n405\n\nVICTORIA, HONGKONG,\n\n30th April, 1859\n\nRobt. W. Keating\n\nGovernor.\n\nI hereby Certify, that Mr A. Weatherhead has received Full Salary at the rate of £300 per Annum as Clerk of the Supreme Court up to the 5th of May, 1859\n\nW. H. S. Griffith\n\nColonial Treasurer.\n\nNOTE.- Officers proceeding on leave of absence are requested to observe, that they will not be enabled to receive Half Salary in England unless this Certificate is duly filled up and signed.\n\n[TURN OVER.]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248809, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "page_number": 412, "title": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "content_text": "E hereby Certify,\n\n1st, That the above leave was granted to commence on the 5th Day of May, 1859, and end on the 4th Day of November, 1860, on the ground of ill health and that's the medical certificate was produced, of which a copy is annexed.\n\n2d, That Mr. Alfred Weatherhead has served the Crown for one year, 4 months, and 21 Days.\n\n3d, That in the course of that Service he has been absent on leave on several occasions, at the dates and for the terms specified below, viz:\n\nIn the year 1858 ... Days.\n\n4th, That provision has been made for the due execution of Mr. Alfred Weatherhead's Office during his absence by the appointment of Mr F. S. Huffum, clerk to the Chief Justice.\n\nJohn Burners Governor,\n\nNOTE. Officers who may be under the necessity of applying to the Secretary of State for an extension of their leave of absence, are requested to annex this document to their applications; and in order to meet this contingency, it will be furnished to them in duplicate.\n\nVIN\n\nCopy\n\nI certify that Dr Chaldecott Cate Acting Colonial Surgeon has been attending Mr A. Weatherhead Clerk of the Supreme Court, for the last 9 months for Irritable Stricture of the urethra and Chronic disease of the kidneys. The disease has latterly much increased and on careful examination of Mr. Weatherhead I am of opinion that he can derive no benefit from further treatment in China and return to England is absolutely necessary. I further declare my belief that he will not be able to resume his duties in less than one very long Year.\n\n(Signed) Eamon Mery Steff Surgeon.\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong 15th April 1859.\n\n(True Copy) Mourn Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 249075, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6]", "page_number": 265, "title": "CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6]", "content_text": "256\n\nbnties of\n\nClerk of Court during Mr Weatherhead's absence - There will now until Mr Weatherhead's return be performed by Mr. T. Turner of the Registrar General's department\n\n3. I had hoped that the office of Clerk of Court might be left in abeyance for a few months, but W: Adams, Acting Chief Justice, has represented the advisability of filling it.\n\n4. And therefore is alternative no but to take a clerk from another department.\n\n5. I avail myself of this opportunity to point out the extreme difficulty I find in making provision for the conduct of public duties under circumstances like the present.\n\n6. This Colony differs entirely from every other in this respect: there are no Candidates for Government employment as few or none come here to look for such, and Official Salaries are so small in comparison to the general style of the place that the vacant posts are not worth acceptance, especially when, as in the present instance, the situation is temporary, and the amount of Salary offered is ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 249351, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6]", "page_number": 541, "title": "CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6]", "content_text": "No Date\n\nSubject of Despatch\n\nCom from\n\n61 April Off Forwarding letter and Return from the Superintendent of Police on the Sanitary condition of the Police Force during\n\n62.\n\n63\n\n64\n\n65\n\n66\n\n68.\n\n#\n\n7838\n\n11 Reporting clearance of the Emigrant Ships \"Gauntlet\" and \"Chinge Doctor\" on Board\n\n12 Acknowledging receipt of Despatches to the 4th of February 1859\n\nForwarding letter from Mr. Wade, the Memorandum of Mr. May covering the papers of the convict Mah Chow-wong\n\nUpon\n\nReporting arrival of Dr. Murray as Colonial Surgeon, and calling attention to Governor's Despatch No. 1291 of 23 Sept. 1858\n\n20 Forwarding extract from China Mail\n\nShowing progress of Public Education in the Colony\n\nReporting clearance of the Emigrant Ships \"Bydons\" and \"Kate Hooper\" with Chinese Doctors in charge\n\nCx-\n\nReporting 18 months leave of absence granted to Chief Justice Fulme, and changes in appointments consequent thereby\n\n528\n\nDesp. Desp.\n\nof Ines\n\nof\n\nMas Date of\n\n69 July 20\n\nNons\n\n7.\n\n72.\n\n73\n\nNone.\n\n74\n\n#\n\nN\n\nSubject of Despatch\n\nForwarding proclamations relative to the Kidnapping of Coolies, and to the Conditions on which Chinese are allowed voluntarily to Emigrate to foreign Countries\n\nForwarding Inventory of Public Furniture in Government House\n\nForwarding copy of Survey of Colonial Treasure Chest and Fault on the 1 April 1859\n\nas\n\n21 Reporting resignation by Mr. Groom of his office to His Excellency the Auditor General and asking instructions as to the recovery of the advance made to him\n\nEngland\n\n26 Acknowledging receipt of Despatches to 14 of 10 March, 1859\n\nReplying to Despatch No. 7 of 21 February on the subject of Chinese Emigration to British Guiana, direct from Macao.\n\n30 Reporting Mr. Davies resignation of the office of Chief Magistrate\n\nrons.\n\n76\n\n77. May 2 Reporting assumption of the Government of the Colony.\n\n(By Colonial Secretary)\n\nReporting 18 months leave of Absence granted to Mr. Wetherhead Clerk of the Supreme Court.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 251413, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7]", "page_number": 423, "title": "CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7]", "content_text": "8\n\n448\n\n9\n\n**vice** Bomanjee Pestonjee resigned. Salary £175 voted in the Supplementary Estimates.\n\n19\n\n1860.\n\n8th September 1860\n\nJ. Wyborn, Warden of the Gaol, **vice** T. Williams, dismissed. Salary of Office £81, 5, 0 provided in the annual Estimates.\n\n20.\n\n27th September 1860.\n\nWilliam See, Interpreter at the Gaol, **vice** F. J. Nunes, dismissed and imprisoned for Malversation. Salary £100 voted in the Supplementary Estimates 1860.\n\n21.\n\nHenry Williams, Inspector of Brothels, **vice** William Mac Sweeney, dismissed. Salary £84 voted in the Supplementary Estimates 1860, but raised by Estimates of 1861 to £108.\n\n22.\n\n10th November 1860.\n\nF. Xavier, Interpreter at the Gaol, **vice** William See, resigned. Salary £100 voted in The Supplementary Estimates 1860.\n\n23.\n\n31st December 1860.\n\nE. D. Huffum, Clerk of Court, **vice** A. Weatherhead, resigned. Salary of office £300 provided in the Civil List. This appointment ought, in accordance with custom, to have been specially reported, but it appears to have been overlooked through inadvertence.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 252131, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "page_number": 568, "title": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "content_text": "Dispatch W:222071867.\n\nInclosure in Dispatch W:222071867.\n\nReport of Committee on Army Services for the year 1862/3. A 19\n\nThe Subject 1861.\n\n2223. Financial ...\n\nRECEIVED 19 FEB 1862\n\nStreatham, 20th December, 1861.\n\nMy Lord Lukin,\n\nUpon reference to your Lordship's Despatch No. 40324 upon the subject of the amounts due by the officers specified in the margin for passages to Europe at the Contract rate, I have to observe that Mr. Bunthorpe paid £10.13.8 into the Colonial Treasury on returning from Newcastle.\n \n| Name | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| M. Burther | £90. |\n| M. Weatherhead | £90. |\n| M. Stor Pennie | £74. |\n| M. Masson | £74. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 252132, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "page_number": 569, "title": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "content_text": "## \n\n565\n\nfrom his leave of absence, and subsequently five monthly instalments of £6.13.4, making in all £46.18.4. Mr Bunthape was suspended from the Service on the 9th April 1860 as reported in my Despatch N.4444 of 11th April 1860, and no money has been obtainable from him since, \nand he is now dead.\n\nMr Weatherhead went home on the 5th May 1859 before any instructions were received by this government to collect for Contract passages when required. He has drawn the whole of his salary and has left the service; and as his passage was not ordered by this Government and no application for repayment has hitherto been made, I was not aware until now that he was so indebted. The Agents General have however been requested to recover the amount.\n\nMessrs Pennie and Marson paid the amount of their passages into the Colonial Treasury before leaving for England.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord Duke,\nYour Lordship's,\nMost obedient servant,\nHunter Gordon Robinson\n\nF", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 253280, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4]", "page_number": 363, "title": "CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4]", "content_text": "## \na retiring pension should be completed with Jan \n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nHaving stated in my Despatch `1.223` 17th December last, instructed the Agents to recover from Mr Weatherhand the amount due by him for passage money, I have the honor to report for your Grace's information that a letter has been received \n\nThe Duke of Newcastle, &c.\n\nNo. \n361 \n476. Financial. Letter to agree 20116 nts q Aug REC E 16 JUN 1862 \n22nd April, 1862. \n\nPage 361", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 253281, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4]", "page_number": 364, "title": "CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4]", "content_text": "# Memorandum\n\nfrom the Regents General covering one from Mr. Weatherhead - Copies are enclosed - showing the inability of M. Weatherland to comply with the demand made upon him.\n\nTaking into consideration the time that has elapsed since this debt was incurred, the small means at Mr. Weatherhead's disposal, and the fact that recurrence of any similar loss has now been provided against, I have to ask your permission not to press this claim. I feel some hesitation in making this recommendation under the circumstance that, had he benefited from the pension scheme for Civil Servants of long standing been in operation upon Mr. Weatherhead's retirement, he might have claimed a gratuity of one month's pay for each year's service, which would have nearly amounted to the sum of this debt.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord Duke,\nYour Grace's Most obedient Servant,\nK. E. Robinson\n\nPage 382", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 253282, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4]", "page_number": 365, "title": "CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4]", "content_text": "# 476.\n\n## Inclosure\n\n(Copy)\n\nSir,\n\n**Crown Colonies Office**, 6 Adelphi Terrace, London, 26th February, 1862.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th December last, directing me to recover from Mr. Weatherhead the sum of £90, being the cost of a contract of passage to this Country from the Colony of Hongkong.\n\nIn reply, I beg to inform you that I duly called upon Mr. Weatherhead to refund the amount, and have...\n\nThe Colonial Secretary, &c., Hongkong.\n\nhin H. Robinson, Hongkong, 22 April to The Duke of Newcastle.\n\nReporting Mr. Weatherhead's inability to pay the cost of his contract passage to England in 1859.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 253283, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4]", "page_number": 366, "title": "CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4]", "content_text": "## \n\nI have received an answer, a copy of which is enclosed, stating his inability at the present time to liquidate this claim - Mr Weatherhead, whom I have seen, is evidently in straitened circumstances and his little household effects are the only things from which the sum due could be realized : - Before taking any further steps in the matter, I should be glad to receive further instructions for my guidance : – \n\nI have &c.\n\n(Signed) Penrose G. Milyun \n\n(True Copy) \n\nMoralexand \n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\n### \n\n5 Udam's Court, Old Broad St. \nLondon, 12th February, 1862 \n\nI have to acknowledge receipt of your letter requesting payment of £90 due from me to the Government of Hongkong, for passage from China to Southampton in 1859. \n\nI regret extremely that I am at present unable to meet this demand. \n\nThe following statement will sufficiently explain how it is, that I am unprepared to meet a contingency that should in the ordinary course of things have been provided for.\n\nPenrose & Julyan, \nAgent General for Crown Colonies.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 253285, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4]", "page_number": 368, "title": "CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4]", "content_text": "6. \n\nof the question, so that I had to put up with the loss. With some difficulty, after several months of endeavour, I obtained a situation as book-keeper at £100 p. \nannum, since raised to £125, and on this small income I have to maintain a wife and four children.\n\nI have thus, as briefly and as detailed as possible, stated my past and present position; my career during the past three years has been one of no ordinary vicissitude and misfortune, and it must be obvious that the circumstances above narrated have rendered it impossible for me to satisfy the claim made. If at any future time my position should improve so as to place it in my power - of which, little unfortunately there seems prospect at present - I need scarcely say I shall be most ready and willing to do so; more than this I cannot say, as it would be worse than useless for me to enter into engagements or make promises which in all probability I should be unable to fulfil.\n\nI am, &c.\n(Signed) A. Wetherhead.\n\n(True Copy)\nMA Alexander\nMeeting Colonial Secretary \n## Page 360", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 253286, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4]", "page_number": 369, "title": "CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4]", "content_text": "## Inclosure in Despatch No 76 of 1862\n\nEnclosure regarding Houghton & Damutton Eagle MN.\n\nJUNE H \nNet Hasers 23 \nWCForken 24 \n76. Front. 5993 \nGovernor 5493 Agent 56y \nSi 367 \n༡༡/༤༠༤༠༡\n\nLam duscled by the blacke of Newcastle to insomn that at that instance of the d. (of the admire th Weatherhead, who was in the employment of the Government of Hongkong, was called upon to liquidate a claim for the sum of £90 preferred by certain Loudiche on account of tis Jonszahl in this Colony from the passage to England in 1859, to pay the cost of his contract.\n\nI transmit a copy of a letter from the Agent General reporting Mr Weatherhead's inability to pay on 26th February, 1862.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 253287, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4]", "page_number": 370, "title": "CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4]", "content_text": "had been received from Messrs. Gysie & Kolmsion with a letter from Mr. Weatherhead stating his willingness to meet the claim made by Messrs. Kleine and Lam.\n\nto state that his firm, having regard to the recommendation by Gysie & Kolmsion on his behalf, would be glad to learn that the Attorney General and the Treasury would sanction the remission of Mr. Weatherhead's debt.\n\n## MINUTE\nL. Eg.\n\nWith reference to `7739. Deng Kung 336` and `Dormungstant Cultemen 1962`, `Any 10162`\n\nJern Willen of the Government Secretariat conveyed authority for requesting from Mr. Weatherhead payment for the shipment of...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 254876, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862", "content_text": "## Index \n\nPage 4 \nno 76.5473 \n& That 29 Jerne \n3646. stong ring \n\n## 27 \n**Office of The Agents-General for Crown Colonies**, 6. Adelphi Terrace, London, W. C. \n18th June 1862 \n\n**RECEIVED** \n11 JUN 1862 \n\nI have the honor to state for the information of the Duke of Newcastle that the various claims for passage money detailed in your letter of the 23rd inst., have been paid to Naval Funds, as detailed in the schedule attached.\n\nWith regard to the sum due by MM. Weatherhead, I transmit a copy of a letter from this office to the Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong on the 26th February on the subject.\n\nI have the honor to be, \nSir, \nYour obedient Servant, \nW. C. Sargeaunt \nAssistant Secretary \nGentlemen \n\nPage 30 \nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 254878, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862", "content_text": "## \nCopy \n\n12. Instant.\n\nOffice of The Agents General for Crown Colonies, 6, Adelphi Terrace, London, W.C.\n\n26 Feby 1862\n\nShave the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14 December last directing me to recover from Mr. Ego the sum being the cost of a contract passage to this Country from the Colony of Hong Kong.\n\nIn reply, I beg to inform you that I called upon Mr. Weatherhead to refund the amount and have received an answer, a copy of which is enclosed, stating his inability at the present time to liquidate this claim.\n\nMr. Weatherhead, whom I have seen, is evidently in very straitened circumstances and his little household effects are the only things from whence the sum due could be realized.\n\nBefore taking any further steps in the matter, I should be glad to receive further instructions from you.\n\nShang th xx \nthe Acting Colonial Secretary\n\n4 \n(JP) Gurdon, Palgrave \nHong Kong", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 254880, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862", "content_text": "31 \n\nIt is impossible for me to return to Hong Kong, in that I was compelled to resign my appointment... \n\n7 \n\nIn addition to this, notwithstanding that the result of an official enquiry proved that the Alma was lost through the default of the Chief officer, i.e. the servant of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company, all compensation was refused unless legally compelled. Of course in my situation, a large suit with a rich and powerful Company was out of the question, so that I had to put up with the loss. With some difficulty, after several months of endeavour, I obtained a situation as book-keeper £100 per annum, since raised to £125, and on this small income I have to maintain a wife and four children, which is possible. \n\nI have thus, as briefly as possible, detailed my past and present position; my career during the past three years has been one of no ordinary vicissitude and misfortune, and it must be obvious that the circumstances above narrated have rendered it impossible for me to satisfy the claim now made. If at any future time, my position should improve, so as to place it in my power, of which unfortunately there seems little prospect at present, I need scarcely say I shall be most ready and willing to do more than this. At present it would be worse than useless for me to enter into engagement or make promises which in all probability I should be unable to fulfil. \n\nJas. Mather (late) `AMatherhead`, Sidmouth.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 255198, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862", "page_number": 352, "title": "CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862", "content_text": "## 115 Amy \n\nSu. T. Rogers \n\nSanction \n\nOffice Health \n\nAug \n982 \n\nbefore 21 Letter to Govt \n\n5993 \n\n3bb5 qt was \n\nback \n\n319 Treasury Chambers \n\n**RECEIVED** \n5 AUG \n1862 \n\nAugust 1862 \n\nLetter of \nthe \nreference to your 27 June last on the subject of Claim against Mr. Weatherhead for passage money from Hongkong to England: Laur Commanded by The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you for the information of the Duke of Newcastle - that in consideration of the straitened circumstances in which Mr. Weatherhead has been placed by his early retirement through ill health from the service of the Government of Hongkong, and the loss suffered by him from being shipwrecked on the voyage.\n\nAs F. Rogers \nBast \nColonial Office", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 255286, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862", "page_number": 440, "title": "CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862", "content_text": "## \nTeasing play. 2 busy.\n\n1 \n\n\" \n\n( \n\nContr \n\n\" \n\n!, \n\n4 \n\n\"Ordinance\". Solemn \"tone\". Affund.\n\n4 Anncline. Motion of fad. Granting & \n\n5. M. Weatherhears. Bassy \n\n15 Currency Proclamation - \nSept. 6 Port Officer's Appointment of \n\n04 \n\n14 \n\nfo \n\nIr \n\n14 \n\n\" \n\n\" \n\n\" \n\nTreasury Prov. 12. Civil Hospital. Estimate for addition to \n\n\" \n\nfs \n\n1 \n\nauty \n\n17 Quartering for Gardener & Foreman of Works - \n\n437 \n\nQued: \n\n\"Dev. 13 Chantine Band & Bank & Syre. Stokes named \n\n} \n\n20 Sappers in Survey Department - Employment \n\n30. Police Force. Gratuities to \n\nh \n\n31 Currency - \n\n8 New Fort & Police Station. Estimate, War Lands: 17 How loan. Sanitary. \n\n4 \n\nAberdeen & Sowkewan Work - \n\ngo \n\nJumman Dues docket Bel-Appointment appointment \n\n12 Persimmon Ordinance. 10. Affirmed \n\n16.Ass. Surveyor of Works and Overseer. Appointment \n\n27 W. W. K. Mitchel Business - \n\n: 29 Leypant Mouatills & Polin Jones. Gratuity - \n\nOrdinance 11. Supply 1863. Affirmed \n\n\" \n\n\" \n\nMar. 5. \n\n8. Loan for land - \n\nApl. 3 Military Council - derm (186). Maintenance. \n\nrr \n\nJune 18 Ordinance 2. Volunteer Force. \n\nSept. 20 Genl. Stavely rejoins & lease Arms & When two - \n\n19 Sept. Almunin. Public Works & Land Department - \n\nNov. 18 \n\nдо \n\nDec. 6. Pline Ulalia, on the Praya. Estimate. Austen Hb. May 29 this despenxin - \n\n4 \n\n16 Dec. Chapman's Passage. \n\nNov. 7. Lamp posts & Gas. Port monthly \n\nJune 14 \n\n## Reconstructed Text in Markdown Table Format\n\n| Date | Description |\n|-------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| | Teasing play. 2 busy. |\n| | \"Ordinance\". Solemn \"tone\". Affund. |\n| | 4 Anncline. Motion of fad. Granting & |\n| | 5. M. Weatherhears. Bassy |\n| Sept. 6 | Port Officer's Appointment of |\n| | 15 Currency Proclamation - |\n| | Treasury Prov. 12. Civil Hospital. Estimate for addition to |\n| | 17 Quartering for Gardener & Foreman of Works - |\n| | 437 Qued: |\n| \"Dev. 13 | Chantine Band & Bank & Syre. Stokes named |\n| | 20 Sappers in Survey Department - Employment |\n| | 30. Police Force. Gratuities to |\n| | 31 Currency - |\n| | 8 New Fort & Police Station. Estimate, War Lands: 17 How loan. Sanitary. |\n| | 4 Aberdeen & Sowkewan Work - |\n| | Jumman Dues docket Bel-Appointment appointment |\n| | 12 Persimmon Ordinance. 10. Affirmed |\n| | 16.Ass. Surveyor of Works and Overseer. Appointment |\n| | 27 W. W. K. Mitchel Business - |\n| | : 29 Leypant Mouatills & Polin Jones. Gratuity - |\n| | Ordinance 11. Supply 1863. Affirmed |\n| Mar. 5 | Loan for land - |\n| Apl. 3 | Military Council - derm (186). Maintenance. |\n| June 18 | Ordinance 2. Volunteer Force. |\n| Sept. 20 | Genl. Stavely rejoins & lease Arms & When two - |\n| | 19 Sept. Almunin. Public Works & Land Department - |\n| Nov. 7 | Lamp posts & Gas. Port monthly |\n| Nov. 18 | |\n| Dec. 6 | Pline Ulalia, on the Praya. Estimate. Austen Hb. May 29 this despenxin - |\n| | 16 Dec. Chapman's Passage. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 452643, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914", "page_number": 489, "title": "CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914", "content_text": "# HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SUPPLEMENT\n\nDid she turn back?-Who, the On Lee? No.\n\nThe doors of the grille were unlocked to let you and the mate get your life belts?-Yes. The mate said \"I have no life belt.\"\n\nI said \"Yes, you have in your room. I told him it was in the wardrobe and we both went to get it but were driven out by the smoke.\n\nYou got yours?-Yes. Could Evans swim?-Yes. Did he jump clear?-Yes. After the adjournment Capt. Wetherell, recalled, gave the number of the crew as 38, 10 cargo coolies and an unknown number of cargo brokers.\n\nThe Tai On's compradore U. Sui-sang, said the first intimation of trouble that he had was the second-class passengers. Pirates entered the compradore's office and ransacked it. He could not tell the number of men but he would estimate five or six were on the job. He would not recognise them again because he could not very well see their faces. They were Chinese dressed in dark clothing and looked much the same as the other passengers. They were ordinary middle-class people except that they looked very fierce and wild.\n\nYou told Mr. Sayer that these people threatened to burn the ship, why did they want to burn the ship? The passengers asked the pirates not to burn the ship.\n\nDid they say why they were going to burn the ship?-I don't know.\n\nYou know what they said?-They told the passengers to ask the captain to be allowed to do as they liked with the ship and then they would not burn it.\n\nDo you know why they were going to burn the ship; they would not be able to get away themselves; that would be a silly thing to do?-I don't know.\n\nWhat do you think?-My idea was that they would not be able to escape. If they did not set fire to the ship and jumped into the water, the captain would shoot them.\n\nIt did not strike you that they did not want to burn the ship but that it got out of control?-I don't know what their intention was but that is what they did.\n\nDid you see them shoot any women?-No.\n\nHow many passengers did they shoot?-I don't know.\n\nWhat were they armed with?-With revolvers.\n\nHow many passengers had you on board?-363. They were people who had paid their fares? They had paid their fares and I had tickets.\n\nCapt. Wetherell: We had 38 crew, 363 passengers, and some cargo coolies and brokers.\n\nOf these were wounded. He had heard that twelve dead bodies had been picked up off Ki O. These were afterwards brought to Hongkong by the Tung Wah Hospital authorities. On May 4, the same authorities brought a further 6 bodies from the scene of the piracy.\n\nOf the survivors at Macao, one was supposed to be a watchman on board the steamer. Some twelve others had been detained, the remainder being allowed to go to their friends.\n\nAntonio Diaz, the watchman on the Tai On, ...\n\nHow many runners had you on board?-About 80.\n\nAnd how many cargo coolies?-Sixteen.\n\nAnd then there were cargo brokers?-Yes.\n\nCould you say how many of them?-About six.\n\nThere were some boys as well making a total of 513 on board. Witness did not know how many were saved. He was saved by the Hoi Sang, having been found clinging to the rudder.\n\nCapt. Wetherell:-When you sold and collected the tickets did you notice anything suspicious?-Nothing.\n\nThe President:-Nothing unusual? They all looked like passengers.\n\nWas there the usual amount of luggage with these passengers?-I did not take notice.\n\nWas there or was there not the usual quantity of luggage? About the same.\n\nInspector Gordon said the Tai On came back to the harbour on May 1 at 10 pm. The remains of 17 bodies were found on board. He believed that there was a lot consumed. The bones of six human beings were found and a large quantity of white ash. The Shun Lee brought back 120 passengers, the Shui On brought back 32 and a European. The Hoi Sang brought back 88.\n\nTai Oa, said he was stationed on the starboard of the bridge armed with a rifle and revolver. He had been trained as a soldier in Portugal. At the commencement of the trouble, he was just abaft the foremost grille. He heard a sound of shots and of people rushing forward in the direction of the bridge, and later saw a man climbing over the bridge rail on the starboard side. Witness shot him. The door in the forward grille was closed after the firing commenced. He killed five persons in the fore part and then turned his attention to the after grille.\n\nWong Him, third engineer of the Tai On, said he was on duty in the engine room when he heard shots forward at about 10:15 p.m. Shortly afterwards, the telegraph rang to him to stop the engines and he did so. Later, he received a signal to go ahead again but he could not carry out these instructions because he was prevented by armed pirates. Ten minutes later, some more pirates came into the engine room and ordered him to stop the engines. He pointed out that they were already stopped. A fireman was then ordered to go and stop the dynamo and when he refused, he was hit over the head with the butt end of a revolver. Another one asked the way up to the captain and was shown the way to the boat deck. They found that the door leading to the boat deck was locked and when they asked for the key, witness replied that he had not got it. Later, as they left the engine room, they threw the key into the crank pit. Just after this, the telegraph again rang to go ahead but witness was again prevented by a pirate who pointed a revolver at his head. Then flames commenced to come in from the main deck through a crack in the door, and witness went below and forward to the grille, shouting to the folks there to get out. Later, he jumped through a cargo port and, after being in the water for about three hours, was picked up by the S.S. Shan Lee.\n\nWong Chiu, second engineer, explained that the sound of shots awoke him on the night in question. Having heard the sound, he did nothing but went back to his sofa. He did not go out to help to defend the ship because he heard a lot of pirates in the No. 2 pilot's room.\n\nThe President:-You had a revolver in your room?-Yes.\n\nWhy didn't you get up and go out and help to defend the ship?-If I had come out, surely there would have been somebody to kill me. I couldn't cope with a lot of pirates.\n\nCapt. Summerville of the S.S. Shun Lee gave evidence as to rescuing survivors from the water. He met the Lintan going up and the master of the vessel hailed him and told him that the Tai On was ashore further up. He also met the On Lee twelve minutes later but that ship made no communication to him. Eight or ten minutes after passing the Lintan, witness saw the rockets going up from the Tai On. He went in as close as he could to the Tai On, anchoring in twelve feet of water. He might have gone closer but the pilots would not take him any further in.\n\nCapt. Weatherhead of the Shiu On deposed to receiving a report from his mate that the Lintan had passed and reported that the Tai On was ashore lower down. He ran the Shiu On to within two and a half cables of the vessel and got out his boats to help save people from the ship and to assist those of the other ships standing by.\n\nThe adjourned hearing was continued on Wednesday when the only evidence adduced was that of the ship's compradore who was recalled.\n\nThe President:-Can you tell me how much cargo the ship was carrying?-I don't know how much there was, but I can tell you the freight.\n\nI want to know the weight? I don't know the weight, I never took notice of that.\n\nWitness said that they were carrying cargo of all kinds. The manifest was burnt and he would not be able to obtain one at the offices of the owners.\n\nIt was suggested that there were about 100 tons of cargo on board. The compradore amended his evidence with regard to the number of passengers on board; instead of there being a total of 513 persons on the ship, there were 433.\n\n## Finding of the Court\n\nThe finding of the court was as follows:-We find that the British S.S. Tai Oo, O.N. 95,858 of Hongkong, of which Robert Henry Wetherell, the number of whose certificate of efficiency is 08851 of London, was master, left Hongkong at 7 p.m. on April 27, 1914, on a voyage to Kongmun with a general cargo of about 100 tons, 395 passengers, of whom only 363 paid any fare, and a crew of 38.\n\nAt about 10:10, the ship being then off the island of Ki Au near the Swashway entrance to the West River, some of the passengers who had embarked at Hongkong rose and attempted to gain possession of the ship, being armed with Mauser and Browning pistols. They attacked the bridge, where the master, mate, and chief engineer and two armed Portuguese guards were entrenched behind iron and barbed wire grilles and loopholed bullet-proof shields, who were able to repel the attack, after shooting several of their assailants, with the loss on their side of one-the chief engineer slightly wounded.\n\nThe pirates then retreated below and endeavoured to persuade some of the peaceful passengers to go up and call upon the master to surrender, and, upon their refusing to do so, shot them. They then deliberately set fire to the ship in two or three places. This was about eleven o'clock.\n\nIn the meanwhile, the officers, in the intervals of fighting, fired distress signals, rockets, bombs, and coloured lights, which were seen and answered by the British steamers Shun Lee, Shui On, and Hoi Sang, which were on the way down the river bound for Hongkong, and by the Chinese S.S. Wo Kwai bound for Kongmuo. Those four ships rendered all assistance in their power and succeeded in rescuing some 165 persons by means of their boats.\n\nThe flames spread rapidly and the ship was shortly ablaze from stem to stern, the passengers, including the pirates and crew, jumping overboard. Many, however, appear to have been unable to escape and were burnt. The anchor was let go to bring the ship's head to the wind, but the officers soon found the bow untenable and had to jump also, the master being the last to leave the ship. They were picked up with the exception of Mr. F. C. Evans, who was unable to secure a lifebelt, the fire having reached his cabin when he went to get one.\n\nThe ship was completely gutted, but was subsequently towed to Hongkong where the charred remains of seventeen bodies were found on board, besides evidence of many more, almost totally consumed by the flames.\n\nWe find that no blame attaches to any of the certificated officers, who took all possible steps to ensure the safety of the ship and conducted the defence of the bridge most gallantly. The means adopted for the defence of the bridge appear to have been most effective.\n\nWe are of the opinion that the conduct of the master of the Tai On was exemplary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554277, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "page_number": 75, "title": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "content_text": "## TYPHOID AND DYSENTERY ORGANISMS\n| Place | Year | Cases | Probable source of infection of the milk | Reference |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Aberdeen | 1925 | Over 300 | Undetermined | `British Medical Journal, August 1, 1925, p. 229.` |\n| Edinburgh | 1926 | 5 | Human | `British Medical Journal, December 4, 1926, p. 1049.` |\n| Glasgow | 1926 | 80 | | `Lancet, April 16, 1927, p. 817.` |\n| Gravesend M.B. | 1927 | 18 | (?) | `Chief medical officer's annual report, 1927, p. 31.` |\n| Chorley M.B. | | 40 | Undetermined | |\n## PARATYPHOID B.\n| Place | Year | Cases | Probable source of infection of the milk | Reference |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | 1924 | 52 | Human | `Chief medical officer's annual report, 1924, p. 53`, `Public Health, May 1925`, `British Medical Journal, March 21, 1925, p. 563`, `Medical Officer, March 28, 1925, p. 141`, `Lancet, April 4, 1925, p. 748.` |\n| | | 128 | Undetermined | `Medical Officer, May 23, 1925, p. 238.` |\n| Wigan C.B. | 1925 | 8 | | `Chief medical officer's annual report, 1927, p. 32.` |\n| Newark-on-Trent M.B. and R.D. | 1927 | 39 | Carrier Human | `Chief medical officer's annual report, 1927, p. 34.` |\n| Tenterden M.B. | 1927 | 48 | \" | |\n| Hemel Hempstead M.B. and R.D. and Watford R.D. | 1927 | 166 | \"\" | `Chief medical officer's annual report, 1927, p. 34`, `British Medical Journal, November 26, 1927, p. 1002`, `August 4, 1928, p. 216.` |\n| London | 1928 | 400 | | `Chief medical officer's annual report, 1928, p. 115`, `British Medical Journal, August 18, 1928, p. 316`, `May 11, 1929, p. 871.` |\n| Kensington Met. B. | | | | |\n| Fulham Met. B. | | | | |\n| Wandsworth Met. B. | | | | |\n| Paddington Met. B. | | 98377 | | |\n| Carshalton U.D. | | | | |\n| Leatherhead U.D. | | | | |\n| Dorking U.D. | | | | |\n| Beddington and Wallington U.D. | | | | |\n| Sutton and New Malden U.D. | | | | |\n| Essex- Epping U.D. and R.D. | 1931 | 218 | Human | `Chief medical officer's annual report, 1931.` |\n| Loughton U.D. | | 13 | | |\n| Walthamstow M.B. | | | | |\n| Chingford U.D. | | 25 | | |\n| Ilford U.D. | | | | |\n\n## DIARRHOEA AND SICKNESS.\n| Place | Year | Cases | Probable source of infection of the milk | Reference |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Bakewell R.D. | 1908 | | Bovine Cow disease | `Public Health, November 1908, p. 59.` |\n| Blackburn, Withnell U.D. | 1914 | Over 30 | | `Public Health, October 1914, p. 21.` |\n## GASTRO-ENTERITIS.\n| Place | Year | Cases | Probable source of infection of the milk | Reference |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Aberdeen | 1909 | 172 | | `Public Health, February 1910, p. 181.` |\n| \" | 1919 | Epidemic 1,000 | Human | `Medical Officer, February 2, 1924, p. 42.` |\n| \" | 1923 | 110 | \" | `Journal of Hygiene, August 1923, XXI, 4, p. 451.` |\n| Leeds C.B. | | 129 | Undetermined | `Medical Officer, February 2, 1924, p. 43.` |\n| Roundhay Moortown | | | | `Journal of Hygiene, XXII, 1, October 1923, p. 89.` |\n## SICKNESS DUE TO CONTAMINATED MILK.\n| Place | Year | Cases | Probable source of infection of the milk | Reference |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | 1929 | 83 | High bacterial content of milk | `Lancet, November 9, 1929, p. 996.` |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]